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[Cheerfuljane]

That`s one way to find out

 

I was expecting it to have something to do with bones

Just Kidding

[Bellamy]

Funny even English speaking people don't know what's that.

[Cheerfuljane]

[Bellamy]

A NEW WORLD RECORD FOR MEN'S 100M, 9.68s.

[Nikosn17]

A NEW WORLD RECORD FOR MEN'S 100M, 9.68s.

 

who made it ? I just stopped watching TV... why is this always happening to me.....

[Bellamy]

Usain Bolt the world's fastest man ever

Updated: 2008-08-16 22:38:56

 

(BEIJING, August 16) -- Jamaican Usain Bolt has won the Men's 100m Final at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in a world record time of 9.69 seconds.

 

Silver medalist Richard Thompson of Trinidad and Tobago ran a time of 9.89 seconds, leaving American Walter Dix at 9.91 seconds to take the bronze.

 

Bolt broke his own world record of 9.72 seconds, which he set in June this year. The Olympic record stood at 9.84 seconds, set by Donovan Bailey at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.

 

Bolt came from relative obscurity to worldwide attention in the 100m at a Grand Prix event on Long Island, New York, in late May, after demolishing the field and breaking the world record in a time of 9.72 seconds, a stunning result for anyone, let alone a runner who had been seen as a 200m specialist.

 

Reigning world champion Tyson Gay failed to qualify after running a time of 10.05 seconds in the semifinals. Gay was the United States best chance for gold.

http://en.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/headl...214551749.shtml

 

I remember I saw 9.68s on TV. Not sure why it's 9.69s on website.

[Nikosn17]

thanx

[zoea2812]

Wow, that was fast,thankyou for the information

[Nikosn17]

We just won silver on wrestling for women. Chinese girl won the gold medal.

[amyja89]

Usain Bolt the world's fastest man ever

Updated: 2008-08-16 22:38:56

 

(BEIJING, August 16) -- Jamaican Usain Bolt has won the Men's 100m Final at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in a world record time of 9.69 seconds.

 

Silver medalist Richard Thompson of Trinidad and Tobago ran a time of 9.89 seconds, leaving American Walter Dix at 9.91 seconds to take the bronze.

 

Bolt broke his own world record of 9.72 seconds, which he set in June this year. The Olympic record stood at 9.84 seconds, set by Donovan Bailey at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.

 

Bolt came from relative obscurity to worldwide attention in the 100m at a Grand Prix event on Long Island, New York, in late May, after demolishing the field and breaking the world record in a time of 9.72 seconds, a stunning result for anyone, let alone a runner who had been seen as a 200m specialist.

 

Reigning world champion Tyson Gay failed to qualify after running a time of 10.05 seconds in the semifinals. Gay was the United States best chance for gold.

http://en.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/headl...214551749.shtml

 

I remember I saw 9.68s on TV. Not sure why it's 9.69s on website.

 

They said on the TV that the time had been rounded up.

[Bellamy]

Can't believe it Isinbayeva sets new WR again. The 24th.

 

lash: Isinbayeva sets new WR to win gold

Updated: 2008-08-18 22:29:46

 

(BEIJING, August 18) -- Defending Olympic champion Elena Isinbayeva of Russia broke her own world record with 5.05m to win gold in the Women's Pole Vault at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. This was the third time that Isinbayeva set a new world record this year.

 

Jennifer Stuczynski of the United States cleared 4.80m to take the silver medal, while Athens 2004 silver medalist Svetlana Feofanova of Russia earned bronze with a vault of 4.75m.

http://en.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/headl...214560541.shtml

[Nikosn17]

Yay finally 5 medals from these olimpic games. 4 of the are from wrestling Edited August 20, 2008 at 11:00 AM by Nikosn17

[grobandion]

We finally got a Gold medal!!!! I can't believe it!!!

It's for "ciclismo" (dunno the word in English, but racing in bikes that is)

I'm very proud on those two guys

 

And there's a lot of hope in soccer (nanana... we beat Brazil....nanana

and why not basketball too (after all...what's the Dream Team? hahaha)

 

Go ARGENTINA!!!!!!!!

 

Saludos

[Duchess]

can you believe the records that have been broken at these games? . as for usain bolt........well he just ain't human . he's from another planet altogether .

 

bellamy please answer this question for me.......why do the chinese write the first names in capitals and not the surnames?

[Bellamy]

You mean the names in Medalists? You noticed they exchanged first name and surname position? Surname first, first name next. That's how we Chinese write our names. We don't really use letters in our names anyway, just for translation. So I don't why the Cap letters.

[Bellamy]

Natalie du Toit can swim better with one leg than most people with two

 

BEIJING - Michael Phelps may be the most astounding athlete of the Beijing Olympics.

 

Natalie du Toit is the most inspirational.

 

Phelps’ eight gold medals and seven world records left you in awe.

 

Du Toit’s effort in the open water swimming marathon left you in tears.

 

Phelps set his record with a body custom-made for swimming. Du Toit swam 6.2 miles with one leg.

 

Du Toit became the first female amputee to compete in the Olympics. She finished 16th in the brand new Olympic event, crossing the line in two hours, 49.9 seconds after swimming around the lake at the Shunyi Park venue used by rowers and kayakers.

 

"For me it was a dream and I gave it everything but I’m glad it’s over," said du Toit, a South African. "I wanted to come in the top five."

 

Nevertheless, she got here, the first amputee athlete to compete in the Olympics since American George Eyser won three gold medals in gymnastics on a wooden leg in 1904. Du Toit and table tennis player Natalia Partyka of Poland, who was born without a right forearm, are the only two disabled athletes competing in the Beijing Games.

 

"I don’t even think about not having a leg, and if I want to keep competing I will have to continue to qualify with the able-bodied," du Toit said. "I don’t want anything free. I’ve worked hard. It’s not like the other athletes are going to say, ’Oh, she’s disabled so we’ll swim slower.’"

 

Du Toit swims without a prosthesis and can’t move her left leg, which was amputated just below the knee. She’s got half the kicking power of her opponents. She compensates with her left arm.

 

She stayed near the leaders for the first half of the race, but lost ground when her cap got caught on a turning buoy. She got stuck in the pack and got "dunked" on a couple turns, when the race becomes a Roller Derby of pushing and yanking.

 

For all of Phelps’ success, it was a calculated feat, down to the last second. Du Toit got here by accident. In 2001, when she was 17, she was riding to school from swim practice on her motor scooter in Cape Town when she was hit by a car pulling out of a parking lot.

 

The force of the collision shattered her leg. For five days, doctors tried to save it. "They couldn’t close it because there was no tissue," said du Toit’s mother, Diedre. "She was literally bleeding from the inside out. They had to operate every day. Once they found the bones didn’t knit they had to amputate right away."

 

Within two days, du Toit was out of bed and trying to walk down the hall, with therapists’ help.

 

"She’s never looked back," her mother said. "When you’re hurt at 17, you’re not disabled mentally. You’re the same person so you want to do the same things you did before."

 

Within five months of the accident, du Toit was back in the pool. At first, she cried in frustration. She had to stop and grab the wall. But swimming dulled the phantom pain.

http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/olympic...90&srvc=rss

 

She's amazing.

[Edwin]

These Games are messing with my sleep. I'm somehow sucked into a volleyball game against the Russians. I'll be glad to be able to sleep again next week.

[Nikosn17]

The judging in some sports is beyond ridiculous.

[Bellamy]

I heard Leona Lewis, Beckham and many other GB celebrities would come to Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony.

[Bellamy]

Closing ceremony today. It's over soon. It's so fast.

[Nikosn17]

Closing ceremony today. It's over soon. It's so fast.

 

yeah. I'll miss it... and the fact that the next summer olimpic games are after 4 years makes me even more sad.

[Krys]

*sigh* it is too short

[Edwin]

Closing ceremony today. It's over soon. It's so fast.

Yeah, they really flew by. As I watch tonights coverage, you've probably already seen the Closing ceremonies.

[CellyDee87]

To qualify as a paralympian, what are the guidelines obviously visually-impaired, wheelchair bound but what else? Edited September 6, 2008 at 11:02 PM by Denelle